nClouds Client Story An AI Innovator

The company turned to nClouds, a Premier Consulting Partner and Well-Architected Partner in the AWS Partner Network, to collaborate on an AWS Well-Architected Review based on a set of architectural best practices for reviewing critical workloads running on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The Review revealed opportunities for infrastructure improvement, including cost optimization, security, operational excellence, and reliability.

After the Review, based on nClouds’ AWS technical expertise in data and analytics, the company asked nClouds to help them optimize costs by migrating from the Cloudera platform to an AWS architecture featuring AWS managed services for data analytics with pay-as-you-go pricing.

And, the company asked nClouds to partner with them to enhance security. They implemented security best practices such as enabling MFA on the root; implementing life cycle, MFA, and password policies for all users; disabling or removing all inactive keys; restricting public access to virtual private cloud (VPC) resources; checking for Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies attached to users; and monitoring resources for encryption at rest.

AI Innovator leverages several Amazon services:

• Amazon API Gateway - Makes it easy for the company’s developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale.
• Amazon Athena - An interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and the company pays only for the queries that are run.
• Amazon Comprehend - A machine learning-powered service that makes it easy to find insights and relationships in text.
• Amazon DynamoDB - A key-value and document database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale.
• Amazon ElastiCache - Makes it easy for the company to scale out, scale in, and scale up to meet fluctuating application demands.
• Amazon Elasticsearch Service - A fully managed service that makes it easy for the company to deploy, secure, and operate Elasticsearch at scale with zero downtime.
• Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose - Part of the Kinesis streaming data platform, it’s a fully managed service (so that the company doesn’t need to write applications or manage resources) that delivers real-time streaming data.
• Amazon S3 - A flexible way to store and retrieve data, providing the company with cost optimization, access control, and compliance.
• Amazon Fargate - Enables the company to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters.
• Amazon Glue - A fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy for the company to prepare and load their data for analytics.
• Amazon Lambda - Enables the company to run code without provisioning or managing servers. They only pay for the compute time consumed – there is no charge when code is not running.

The company’s solution stack also includes:

• nOps - A SaaS cloud management platform for AWS that facilitated the company’s AWS Well-Architected Review with automated discovery and enables them to optimize cost and manage security and compliance for their AWS resources.